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Mr. Disney informed the Board that they are proposing in this current project to provide new kitchen facilities. The old kitchen will be remodeled and used to expand the pre -book holding to facilitate handling and in -processing of inmates. Chairman Scurlock asked if the original plan was to build a kitchen to serve only two pods and then have to phase it out and build a new kitchen. Mr. Silver stated that kitchen was originally designed as a full fledged kitchen, but because of cost restraints and budgetary concerns, it was cut back to a smaller project. He pointed out that as the facility grows, your booking needs to expand also to support the increased inmate population, and the remodeling use of that kitchen space provides that opportunity. He believed they can provide a better operating kitchen facility with construction of a new kitchen, and noted that while it is designed at this juncture to be able to serve 1200 meals per sitting, they are not proposing to put that quantity of kitchen equipment in now. Commissioner Bird asked if the present kitchen could be expanded enough just to accommodate Pod "D." Mr. Silver stated that they could put an addition off the side of it, but they feel it would create a very undesirable situation relative to deliveries. Commissioner Bird believed we always contemplated those three phases and could not believe we painted ourselves into that much of a corner on the kitchen. Commissioner Wheeler felt the Commission did. He noted that the Jail Committee spent several years going through these plans, and then towards the start of the bids, there apparently was a "knee-jerk" reaction to the point that they even came back in with another plan and wanted to change the whole design to cut expenses. The Committee had quite an extensive meeting and pointed out that the tabor intensiveness in the new plan, which was supposed to cut the costs of the project down, actually would APR 12 1988 28 BOOK 72 Du 28